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2441. Harley MS 2415

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2415
Title:
Walter Hilton, The Prickynge of Love
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains The Prickynge of Love, an English translation, perhaps made by the Augustinian canon and mystic Walter Hilton, of the late 13th-century Stimulus Amoris by the Franciscan friar James of Milan. The translation survives in 16 manuscripts. Other copies can be found in Harley...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:

1 volume

2442. Harley MS 2417

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2417
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis (or Festial)
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-87v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals or Festial), imperfect at the end. The Festial is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Festial was the most widely ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2443. Harley MS 2418

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2418
Title:
Sermons
Scope & Content:
A volume of 100 anonymous sermons, beginning and ending imperfectly. Contents: ff. 1r-13v: Sermons 4-7, beginning imperfectly. ff. 14r-132v: Sermons 8-103, in a different hand, ending imperfectly. 1 parchment stub between ff. 60 and 61 and 1 between ff. 130 and 131. Decoration: Initials in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
Mid 13th century

2444. Harley MS 2419

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2419
Title:
Johan Baptista Houwaert, Den wel ghecomen van den [...] Prince van Parma
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-57r: Johan Baptista Houwaert (b. 1533, d. 1599), Den wel ghecomen van den [...] Prince van Parma. Poems dedicated to Alexander Farnese (b. 1545, d. 1592), Duke of Parma, beginning ‘Den Hoogh-gheboren, Doorluchtigen Ende victorieusen Alexander Prince van Parma etc. Ridder vander...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:

1 volume

2445. Harley MS 2420

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2420
Title:
John Mirk, Liber Festivalis
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-64v: John Mirk (b. 1382, d. c. 1414), Liber Festivalis (The Book of Festivals), imperfect at the end. The Liber is a collection of homilies for the festivals of the liturgical year as it was celebrated in Mirk's time in Shropshire. The Liber was the most widely read English ser...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-4th quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2446. Harley MS 2421

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2421
Title:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a copy of Boece, a Middle English prose translation of Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiae (On the Consolation), written by the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (b. c. 1340s, d. 1400). Contents: ff. 1r-153v: Geoffrey Chaucer, Boece, a translation of Boethius' De Consolatione ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2447. Harley MS 2422

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2422
Title:
Nigel Wireker, Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror of Fools)
Scope & Content:
ff. 2r-6v: Nigel Wireker, prose prologue. ff. 6v-8v: Nigel Wireker, verse prologue. ff. 8v-81v: Nigel Wireker, Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror of Fools). Decoration: Numerous marginal sketches in red of faces in profile. 1 large initial in red (f. 2r). Smaller initials in brown and/or red...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 13th century
Extent:
1 volume

2448. Harley MS 2423

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2423
Title:
Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-38v: Vincent of Beauvais, Tractatus consolatorius de morte amici, ad Ludovicum Regum Francorum. Decoration: 1 large initial in red with red pen-flourishing (f. 1r). Smaller initials in red with reserve designs. Rubrics in red. Capitals marked in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 15th century-3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2449. Harley MS 2425

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2425
Title:
Francesco Matarazzo, Funeral oration for Leonardus Perusinus
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-23r: Francesco Matarazzo (d. 1518), Funeral oration for Leonardus Perusinus. Decoration: Historiated initial in gold and colours with a man holding a book, with a bar extending along the text (f. 1). Gold initial on a blue ground decorated with gold (f. 1).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 15th century-1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

2450. Harley MS 2427

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2427
Title:
Psalms. Psalms and Proverbs in English, Latin, Hebrew and Greek in 4 columns on each page
Scope & Content:
Language : Hebrew The Psalms in Hebrew, unpunctuated and accompanied by Greek and Latin translation. Tehilim. תהילים Note: Contains a fragment of Proverbs, 20:14-30:33. Main text in Hebrew with vowel-points and accents, accompanied with a parallel Septuagint and a Latin version. The Psalms h...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1600-1799
Extent:
161 folios (ii+161+iii)

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